China crisis: Power struggle threatens to erupt in Beijing amid economic punishment fears


Source: express.co.uk express.co.uk

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China could erupt into a political power struggle according to recent intelligence indications, according to Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat. The Tory MP told Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO that there are "real pressures on the Chinese communist party". He said there are "indications" that Beijing's political unity "may not be quite as tight as it wants you to imagine". Trending The MP said: "Like all dictatorships, it wants to pretend that it is all-powerful, all central, and one mind. "Yet, a few weeks after the huge spike in deaths in Wuhan over COVID-19, there was a day of mourning...